Chapter 85: Letter from Home
This meal subverted the Wang family's perception of dishes, and the carefully prepared meals on this table were simply impeccable, and it turned out that the emperor's introduction was really without water.
A table of dishes became clean after the storm, Wang Shitao wiped his mouth and looked satisfied.
"Can you please meet the chef?" Wang Shitao picked up the wine glass and drank it clean and said.
This wine is also an absolute top wine, and when he was served just now, he was conquered by the aroma of this wine.
Dowling was invited to the restaurant, and the Wang family was even more shocked when they saw that the chef sitting at the table was a young man.
"Dowling has seen Lord Zhijunlang, I wonder if this meal is appetizing?" Dowling said with a fist salute.
"Not bad! Very good! Ben Jiang has eaten such a delicious meal for the first time in these years, and the chef is attentive, Ben will dare to assert that your 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Residence' will definitely be able to become popular in the imperial capital, and even in the whole empire. Wang Shitao unabashedly admired.
"Lord Xie Zhijunlang said that the small shop will continue to work hard, and I hope that Zhijunlang will do more publicity for the store." Dowling bowed slightly, but his tone was neither humble nor arrogant.
"Don't worry, this kind of food should be discovered by more people." Wang Shitao said with a smile.
After the Wang family sat down for a while, they settled the bill and left, although the meal cost their family five thousand taels, they all felt that the money was too well spent, and it was definitely worth the money.
After sending off the guests, everyone started to get busy again, and Dowling began to clean the pots and pans that everyone had cleaned up, and Qianxue wanted to help, but he refused with a smile.
"You've already worked hard to cook a meal, why do you even have to clean the pots and pans yourself?" Qianxue asked as she stood behind Dowling with some confusion.
"This is the same as your practice of playing the piano, you will have different tunes and different tones when you practice, and I am a cook to wash, chop, stir-fry and so on, which is also my practice." Dowling explained with a smile as he washed the dishes.
"Then you're working too hard like this." Qianxue said with concern.
"It's not hard, where is the hard work, I'm a martial artist, and the chef is my profession, I do what I should do, it's not called hard, and I finish what I should do, and then do other things that shouldn't be done, that's called hard." Dowling said with a smile.
"But we can't bear to see you so tired." Qianxue lowered her head and whispered.
"Tired? It's not tiring. Dowling said as if he remembered something.
"In my hometown, children don't cultivate, they have to go to school since they were six years old, until they are in their twenties, and some even have to go to further education, and when they leave school, they are already in their thirties, and in these years, in addition to completing their studies, they also have to study many, many extracurricular classes, and they have to write the homework left by their husband until the early hours of the morning every day."
"After graduating in their twenties, they have to start looking for jobs, which are difficult to find, and they have to go from house to house, and some of them may not be able to do well when they enter the job, and they have to leave and find a new job, working day after day, year after year, and they can't even afford to buy a square meter of money they earn all year round."
"When they meet the opposite sex they like, they don't dare to pursue it, because they can't afford to chase it, if they want to get married, they need a lot of expenses such as bride price, three golds, banquets, etc., what should these children who have just entered the society do if they have no money? It was only his parents who helped him out, and their parents came over like this. ”
"To get married for a son, on the surface it seems to be jubilant, how many parents are secretly crying behind the scenes, time goes back and forth, and soon more than 20 years have passed, and this group of children has become like his parents, the money for buying a house has not been repaid, and they have to buy a house for their children, bride price, three golds, etc., many people are depressed and breathless, some of them are for money, and they go to work several jobs a day, which is called tired."
"You may not understand what I said, but I have experienced that kind of life, I am afraid of that kind of life, I can face a strong enemy without being timid, but I dare not face that kind of life again, so now in your eyes I am very tired of doing this, but for me, these jobs are really easy, very easy." Dowling washed the last plate, turned around and said with a smile.
Qianxue suddenly felt that the young man in front of him was a little incomprehensible, and he had never heard of the strange things he said.
"Then can you take me to see the life you are talking about?" Qianxue asked curiously.
"That's going to be difficult, and I can't guarantee that I'll be able to go back." Dowling said with a wry smile.
"Is it hard? Aren't you from a place on the west side called a glimmer of heaven? Qianxue asked inexplicably.
"Yes, a glimmer of heaven is indeed my hometown, okay, don't talk about those useless ones." Dowling laughed and snorted.
Dowling started the pot to boil oil, everyone was busy all night, and before they had eaten, Dowling simply made a few dishes for everyone, and everyone was very happy.
"The first day of net income 3519 taels, if you keep it for a month, won't you be able to earn 100,000 taels, are we going to take off?" At the dinner table, Mo Ran said excitedly after counting today's expenses and income.
Since Dowling asked him to take care of the money, he can be said to be diligent, and he remembers every expenditure and income clearly.
"Not necessarily, I will order such an expensive dish every day, but even if it is a cheap dish, there are still a thousand taels this night." Dowling said with a smile.
Everyone raised their glasses in tacit agreement at this time.
"Dowling, hard work, let's toast you with this glass of wine."
Dowling grinned, picked up his glass and touched it with everyone, then raised his head and drank it down.
It was late at night, Dowling didn't go back to his room to sleep, he sat on the steps at the door of the living room, feeling the cold wind blowing in the middle of the night, and his thoughts returned to Wuji Peak again.
"Dad, my son opened a restaurant in the imperial capital, and he earned more than 3,000 taels on the first day, which is more than your income that year, are you envious?" Dowling muttered as he looked at the moon in the sky above him.
The mood was in place, Dowling turned around and walked into the study, after lighting the oil lamp, he picked up the pen and began to write a letter to his family, this was the first time he wrote a letter to his family, and he wrote everything that happened after coming to the imperial capital during this time.
Seeing the Emperor - Cooking for the Emperor - Participating in the Academy Test - Meeting Taishi Xingwei - Moving the Ten Peerless Academy to his ancestral house - Worshipping Taishi Xingwei as a teacher, he didn't write about the grievances with the Taoists, because he felt that this matter had nothing to do with his father, and he didn't want to pull his father in again.
Pack the written family letter, Dao Lin plans to send it to the post station tomorrow, I believe that it will not be long before Dao Wuji, who is far away in Wuji Peak, will be able to receive his family letter, and his father is worried, after reading his family letter, his father will definitely be very happy, after all, his son has already gained a firm foothold in the imperial capital.